Guest Spot

Every few days, while sitting on the couch, I open up Subash's blog and make a sad face at him to remind him he hasn't posted in a while. Today's pouty face was met with the suggestion of my making a guest post.

And so, hello everyone, this is Kathleen, the person in love with your dear friend.

I've been thinking a lot lately about traveling. The weather warmed up for a brief moment, giving a fleeting reminder of what it feels like to wear flip flops and be free of the heavy layers of winter. Subash and I have only been on 2 "real" trips together, one to Chicago and one to Florida. We have talked about future trips, though, and I simply can't wait. I feel very lucky that we are together and I get to travel with him--he is one of those people that makes friends wherever he goes, and always seems to get by no matter what. I can't wait to go on adventures together, walk unknown blocks, eat street food, collect stones from beaches, fall asleep in small patches of sun, watch out the window of planes, buses, cars, and trains as old and new landscapes roll by.

I don't know exactly what else to write about. So, I think that I will change directions and leave you with a completely different kind of story. No one was there with me to share the moment at the time, so I will force it on all of you now instead.

Today on the way to class in the morning, while fighting some driving winds that had appeared out of nowhere, a little squirrel and I crossed paths. It was eyeing a giant slice of pizza with only a few bites out of it that had been left on the ground. It looked at me, looked at the pizza, and made a run for it, grabbing the crust in its mouth. It tried to get away with it, dragging the pizza across the ground as it awkwardly ran to the nearest tree, a thin spindly thing only a little taller than me. It hauled the pizza up the tree, climbing out to one of the thin side branches, where it began shoving the slice between two branches with it's eager little paws. It stuffed it there and turned to look at me, wary and victorious.

I looked all around for another person that could acknowledge how ridiculous the site of this giant piece of pizza in the high branches of a tiny tree was. As mentioned, no one was around, and so here we are.

I think that's all I've got for now, but hopefully Subash will post again soon. Until then, I hope everyone is doing well and having a great time.

Until next time!

-Kathleen